15 October 2021
China will send three astronauts to orbit on Saturday to carry on the construct its space station. Launch is scheduled at 12:23 am Beijing time from the country's launch centre in the Gobi desert
13 October 2021
Blue Origin's NS-18 mission has successfully reached the edge of space and landed back on Earth, making crew member William Shatner the oldest person to cross the Kármán line
11 October 2021
There is more than one way to deal with a large asteroid heading straight for Earth say scientists behind a new study. If it is not possible to nudge it out of the way, then setting off a nuclear explosion close to its surface should do the trick.
08 October 2021
Images from Perseverance show that billions of years ago, Jezero’s fan-shaped river delta experienced late-stage flooding events that carried rocks and debris into it from the highlands well outside the crater, say scientists behind a new study
06 October 2021
The United Arab Emirates has announced that the country is working on a new spacecraft that will flyby Venus and end with landing on an asteroid. The mission is due to launch in 2028
A Soyuz rocket has rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan, ready to blast off Tuesday to the International Space Station (ISS) with veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild, and film director Klim Shipenko to shoot the first fictional film in space
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it is investigating Blue Origin after an open letter penned by former and present staff suggests in-house sexism and safety issues at Jeff Bezos's space firm
US start up Orbit Fab has announced that it will soon be launching the first propellant tanker to geostationary orbit for satellites to refuel in space. The tanker is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket no earlier than late 2022 or early 2023
"Exotic" materials including meteorite fragments and volcanic beads are among some of the early-stage findings from samples collected by China's first sample return mission to the Moon, Chang'e-5
A team developing a reactor which produces methane from CO2, say it could be used to convert Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel that could be used by future martian astronauts to help them get home. It could also be used to help mitigate climate change back on Earth too.
